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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

An idea is a feat of association.

Robert Frost

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.

T. S. Eliot

A thought is an idea in transit.

Pythagoras

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

Howard W. Newton

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Albert Camus

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas A. Edison

Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.

Ayn Rand

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Edgar Watson Howe

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

A poem is no place for an idea.

Edgar Watson Howe

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

William S. Burroughs

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

Jules Renard

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

William Hazlitt

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt

It is a community service board, ... You do it out of a community service idea.

Tom Greene

The players aren't only great athletes, they are also fashion icons and this idea complements the crossover between sport and fashion.

Larry Scott

He wanted to get an idea about American Spring Training and techniques.

Allard Baird

One of the guys that passed out hit his head on the floor pretty hard. I would have caught him but I was too busy shielding my eyes. And all of my nose hair fell out. The doctors have no idea why.

John Sebrits

The people who perpetrated this crime really had no idea what they were destroying.

Lisa Mcdermott

We don't have any idea how this could have happened. We referred him to people, and we even set up some appointments. We thought we were doing a favor for our folks.

Richard Fowler

It's a great idea to copy those. Because in case you lose them, it's so much easier to get them replaced if you have a copy of them.

Nilou Motamed

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

I think most people have no idea how closely we pay attention to this. But the planes won't take off without us.

Penny Williamson

You can always pick up an extra idea for your kitchen.

Mary Jurkonis

I have no idea, Mr. McGovern. I would say he probably was.

Peter Gotti

It's very unimaginative. The idea sounds good: get help for the kids.

David Oaks

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

We hope every year that this is going to be the one. I can't wait for the derby. It sounds cocky to say you expect to win, but I'm going with the idea that we have a pretty good horse.

Gretchen Jackson

It was so bang-bang, I had no idea what happened or what caused the ball to be loose, ... All I knew was I looked down, saw the ball going through my arms and off my body and we'd won.

Dave Roberts

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

A committee doesn't cost us anything. It's not a committee to do anything, but gives you an idea of the possibilities. It's worth weighing the pros and cons.

Teri Kelly

Mr. Hochberg was receptive to the idea because he was the one who said he would put a museum of some description in the barn, but he would leave it the commission's decision what would be an appropriate use of the space.

Cheryl Cook

The idea is to prohibit further use of a criminal implement.

Gary Marbut

Yes, I have an idea, and no I don't think I can tell you.

Chuck Reed

We pass by the mission every day on our way to our clinic in Keizer. And then we had this great idea of giving flu shots to the homeless.

Robin Morton

The students had the idea. They wanted to do something.

Paul Mccurtain

There's a certain amount of resonance about that idea.

Larry Newman

But there's no excuse not to start doing it. This is an idea whose time has come.

Dan Geer

I am really excited about the house. It is looking great and I am very optimistic that we can make a real difference with this idea.

Marianne Cusato

This is the court of public opinion -- the idea is to educate the folks in the House of Commons on what is happening.

Clive Stafford Smith

The initial idea was to make something cheap and marketable. Nudity is definitely marketable.

Jon Gorman

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Shirin Ebadi

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

The whole idea is to keep the game alive. There was give and take on both sides.

Mark Driscoll

Our first idea was to try and save the building.

Tom Bender

We don't believe this is any major result of a fear of large cap stocks. It's the idea you should have broader diversification.

Gus Sauter

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

I'm a little surprised by all of this, and I think before tonight's meeting I had no idea this was the format.

Connie Boesen

It's one of the best opportunities for me to experience the care we give - I feel the care we give, not study it or analyze it. Because of that, I have a better idea of how things should be done.

Becky Nelson

Don't drink the water. We have no idea what's in the water. Do not drink the water. We are working feverishly to find a way to get water to everybody.

Joe Spraggins

There was this crazy moment when we both got the same idea. We took one cool thing and another cool thing, put them together, and came up with something special.

Jacek Pruski

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.

Abe Bonowitz

It's just something I enjoyed. I loved the idea of one-on-one. You can't blame on anyone but yourself.

Weldon Benton

I have no idea how we couldn't score a point.

Orlando Larracuente

Or they do it informally. That's OK for them, but it's not enough to prove to someone else your idea is viable.

Tom O'connell

We don't have any idea where they are. They could be anywhere.

Bill Miskell

Most of the emails were from students and, particularly, young architects who want to do something to help, but have no idea what they can contribute.

Cameron Sinclair

The vast majority of businesses really have no idea how much their business is actually worth until they sell it.

Alex Kindler

That's definitely the idea but you've got to look at the game situation when he comes on to bowl.

Shaun Pollock

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis De Sade

The idea behind the pseudonyms is that you can eliminate the dossier effect, where everything you're doing is being collected, archived, and linked to you.

Austin Hill

It just hurt. It's not what our idea of Fayetteville was at this time. We figured we had gone a whole lot further than that.

Aaron Hawkins

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I do not have for you at this time anything that I might characterize as a definitive response to this idea.

William J. Perry

Yep. Yep. Those are the big ones. The in-store idea is brilliant. I would assume you're gonna see partnerships with local clubs, local venues to give you that same thing.

Michael Bracy

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

J. Michael Straczynski

It was a great idea to have some fun to celebrate the holiday.

Dana Harville

The idea is to sip and savor a drink or two.

Katherine Tallmadge

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

I feel that this is a disaster waiting to happen. Putting something like this below the ground is a very, very bad idea.

Sally Regenhard

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Max Lerner

It's a wonderful idea, and I'd love to put my name on it.

Wendy Ward

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Larry Summers

Dave asked me to be his campaign treasurer, and there was no question that I would, because he is a very good friend of mine. But I had no idea what a campaign treasurer does.

Tony Thomas

When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where to go.

Alfred Aboya

We hate the idea. To think that people are going to be tromping through our backyards really bothers us.

Tom Moran

The whole idea behind this is we're trying to get out ahead of the counterfeiters.

Michael Lambert

I have no idea how much it's going to cost, but it's getting done.

Warden Ramon Rustin

You were blackout drunk the night before if you wake up and have no idea where you are and why.

Trent Johnson

I don't accept failure. I have no idea what happened. The snap was good. The hold was good.

Mike Vanderjagt

We have no idea who's DNA that was.

Daniel Hempey

I'm the bravest that I've ever been right now. Don't ask me where I got these balls: I have no idea.

Lisa Marie Presley

You can never figure out how much an idea is worth.

Dean Schroeder

Overall I experienced a lot of things I never saw and never talked about. I have a better idea of what I want to do.

Christian Larkins

Our customers — 18-year-old Japanese girls to 65-year-old ladies — like the idea of covering their arms.

Brian Wolk

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William S. Gilbert

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

Robert Rodriguez

I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I was terrified. I felt like I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Christina Kim

We may have more, but the idea is at least three.

Chris Richmond

We know what a gun and bullet does to a person's body, but we have no idea what a stun gun does.

Sen. Gary Siplin

It's always something new he gets an idea and we try to execute it the best we can but he's always pushing the limits of glass making.

Joe Decamp

In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.

Jack Jennings

The idea is to have no responsibilities.

Sharon Blosser

The idea that the President also needs to go to the bathroom, I suppose, is of interest.

Jane Wells

A steel angel was placed at the site to offer hope. The idea was to focus children's attention on hope and to aid them in dealing with their fears.

Jean Brown

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Paul Conrad

We have learned the hard way that making them float on water is not a good idea.

Haley Barbour

I have no idea. I'll think about that when the season's over.

Marshall Brown

It was a silly idea in the first place.

Shareese Deleaver

It's an idea that was born out of desperation.

Andrew Westphal

She used to tell me she had no idea how Jack was getting so drunk. But we figured it out. Then he had to check his valise at the door.

Peter Gunther

While we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, very few of us know what it means.

John Lithgow

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

This way, you see what you already have and get an idea for what you need.

Chelsey Lentini

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Russell Hoban

I can't say I had any idea (what would happen after 9/11), other than I knew things would change. This wasn't going to be something we were going to forget.

Jason Jacobs

This brings blue jeans into the 21st century. The idea is to merge fashion and technology together.

Amy Jasmer

A lot of them don't want to hear the news that 'that's a silly idea, it won't work,' .

Tom O'connell

I'm not a big buyer of the idea that these imbalances need to cause a crash. I've been hearing that for twenty years.

Richard Koss

That's where the idea came from that exercise might affect risk for breast cancer.

Brian Henderson

Columbus played a great game. Even though it was a boring game, it was good for them because they sat back and used their speed on the flanks and we had no idea how to break them down.

Antonio Martinez

I have no idea what that's about.

Hal Morton

I talked with him last week. But I had no idea the Indiana thing was going down.

Brad Huse

We have a lot of Mexicans that work ... here for the landscaping businesses, and I have no idea if they're illegal or not.

Carolyn Long

That image of the basement gamer, sitting in front of a screen - it's a dead idea. This room - this is what a gamer is now.

Taylor Clark

We knew there had to be a delay in this, but we had no idea how it occurred.

Michael Kotlikoff

The idea that engineering is dead [in the U.S.] is hype.

Ahmad Bahai

We had the idea, 'Let's do .

The Wonder Years

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Bruce Lee

They met in early December, and all agreed that this was a good idea.

Claudia Keith

I'm all for fire stations near to everyone as can be. But they should be put in commercial areas. I'm well aware of the not-in-my-backyard idea, but there ought to be better thought to where they are put.

Stanley Walker

It was a great idea. I was looking for anything to keep myself busy.

Catherine Girgenti

I guess it was my idea.

Heather Tarr

I don't think anyone has a good way of finding the cost of an event. Most companies don't really do the proper postmortem, or, if they do, they have no idea what to include in the analysis.

Peter Firstbrook

The word would be flummoxed. We don't have any idea how she would measure up, because she doesn't have any available record.

Colleen Parro

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Al Neuharth

You get the idea of the stratification of walls that creates the impression of an excavated site, of an archaeological dig.

Jorge Silvetti

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

We had no idea the ditch in Crawford had such phenomenal acoustics.

Nancy Lessin

People love the idea of encountering his face, Searching for Shakespeare.

Tarnya Cooper

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

Lincoln Kirstein

I have no idea what I'm doing now. You messed me up.

Pat Moore

It's a novel idea, very interesting.

Jiao Jian

The idea that currencies are less important to trade accounts now doesn't stand up to serious analysis.

Jim O'neill

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Dr. Linus Pauling

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Anatole France

I don't have any address. I don't have any idea down there.

Dabo Pobot

We had no idea they were there.

Ron Roberts

David had this idea. And I said yes.

Tom Freeman

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

Tammy Bruce

I have no idea. I don't know.

Robert Morgan

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Freddy Mella

Russ was probably one of the last guys to give it a heck of a try. The idea was noble.

Alex Linke

We took this idea and ran with it.

Jeff Berman

I like the rich colors and the rich idea. It's a very deep idea. It's how nature connects all of us.

Melissa Allen

We now have a better idea than ever before about what is driving stock price momentum.

Bing Han

William Fleming, I've said all along that I have no idea how they got beat last week. Because when I watch them on film, I'm in awe of them.

Jack Turner

I have no idea what it means. I just sounded it out.

Dylan Williams

I love the way she sustains her run, and I think there's a good chance we'll try the Ashland. That way we can get an idea where we stand with her.

Steve Klesaris

Be prepared to withstand 48 reasons why it's a bad idea.

Charles Carlson

The idea is that you induce plasticity in the brain, and once it's there, you can remove the hardware.

Helmi Lutsep

This is not a new idea. The development has been much more difficult than most people believed.

William J. Perry

We knew it was going to increase, but we had no idea it was going to double. Sellers are getting a little more anxious.

Paul Olson

Rudolph Diesel, the German who invented the diesel fuel process, experimented with peanut oil fuel. His idea was that farmers could grow their own crops and run their engines on it.

Andrew Klenert

I have yet to meet anyone who thought it was a good idea.

Bruce Benson

It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, but it was what I felt I had to do to get better at basketball.

Camille Moute

The whole idea (of accreditation) is that a college education ought to stand for something.

Alan Contreras

She was excited about that. I think it?s helped her training because it gave an idea of what she?s capable of doing.

Pete Voskes

I have no idea (why we started so flat). But I give Bogie all the credit. They came out with a lot more heart than we did and they showed they wanted it from the start.

Necole Tunsil

I don't think I ever imagined this. I had no idea I was even close.

Heidi Romer

Some people had no idea that they were talking to a developer about a development.

Mariella Smith

No idea is too small or insane.

Dawn Ballard

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.

Cicero

I had some minor symptoms, but had no idea the cancer was even there. It was discovered through a colonoscopy. I basically had it all over.

Jim Harmeyer

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

I had a pretty good idea after last weekend's competition. It wasn't a complete surprise.

Jana Lindsey

The whole idea is to clean it out so somebody can buy this piece.

Joe Polizzi

I have an idea, I have a passion and I have a willingness to work with people who may not agree with me.

William Aila

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Murray Kempton

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Ray Bradbury

The idea is that Las Vegas is a destination in the U.S. that people go to see something different, ... We thought this would be something that worked here.

David Hackett

I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that was me. So, that was really cool. I was proud that we fooled people.

Amanda Bynes

The idea is that the boys learn about cars, how to build them and how to compete in a fun way.

Ben Alexander

He's been solid. I think he's got a pretty good idea of what he's doing back there.

Blaise Ilsley

You never know where you're going to get a good idea from.

Spencer Mayfield

It's been very interesting. I think it's a great idea.

Peggy Davis

We worked very hard to create an atmosphere where the idea was to celebrate community and cross boundaries.

Jane Sullivan

The idea is to slowly introduce the user.

Bryan Scott

The Garrard Road house is the example that will be used to spread the idea statewide.

Bob Daniels

The next generation is a place where the best idea, not the biggest budget will win.

Satoru Iwata

Everyone thought it was a great idea.

Deborah Platt

One deputy had an idea where to look.

Beth Adcock

Before I flew to space, I had no idea how comfortable it would be. I think if a lot of people know what I know now there would be a huge demand.

Dennis Tito

It started as a big idea, and in the process of designing it grew even bigger.

Thomas O'brien

We still have 2,698 people to convince that this is a good idea.

David Stevenson